The agriculture sector in Africa is dominated by small-scale farmers who account for about 80% of the total farms. However, are vulnerable to climate change and variability. Their high susceptibility emanates from their inadequate ability adapt change. As a result, generally adversely impacted due over-reliance on rainfed natural resources. This exposure susceptibility, however, differ across r...

The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) has successfully operated on-orbit for nearly ten years since its launch in October 2011, continuously making global observations and improving studies of changes Earth’s climate environment. VIIRS 22 spectral bands, among which 14 are reflective solar bands (RSBs) covering a range...

This study aims to investigate how changes in meteorological indicators affect groundwater resources, and hence predict levels using these indicators, particularly regions experiencing drought subsidence. Precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration precipitable water vapor (PWV) are important parameters levels. Two subsidence areas with different weather conditions were selected conduct a co...

Abstract Background Projecting future streamflow variation or the hydrological impact of climate change plays a pivotal role in sustainable implication planning water resources management. Therefore, this study predicts potential change’s on components Upper Awash Basin (UAB). The applied statistical downscaling model (SDSM) to generate high-resolution data from output Canadian Second Generatio...

The Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is one of five instruments on-board the Suomi National Polarorbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2011. VIIRS has been scheduled to view the Moon approximately monthly with a spacecraft roll maneuver after its NADIR door open on November 21, 2011. To reduce the uncertainty of th...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), with 36 bands and 0.25-, 0.5-, and 1.0-km geometric instantaneous-fields-of-view (GIFOV’s) at nadir, has completed system level testing and has been integrated onto the Earth Observing System (EOS)-AM1 spacecraft, which is slated for launch in 1998. Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS), Goleta, CA, the MODIS developer, has perfo...

Aqua MODIS, also known as the MODIS Flight Model 1 (FM1), was launched on May 4, 2002. It opened its nadir aperture door (NAD) on June 24, 2002, beginning its Earth observing mission. In this paper, we present early results from Aqua MODIS on-orbit calibration and characterization and assess the instrument s overall performance. MODIS has 36 spectral bands located on four focal plane assemblies...

Knowledge regarding the early evolution within the dinosaurian clade Ankylopollexia drastically increased over the past two decades, in part because of an increase in described taxa from the Early Cretaceous of North America. These advances motivated the recent completion of extensive preparation and conservation work on the holotype and only known specimen of Dakotadon lakotaensis, a basal ank...